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Edited by Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-Being focuses on organizational well-being in its widest sense, and it is concerned with reviewing the factors which are associated with ill health, as well as those which promote positive health and well-being. In today's changing business environment, the financial health of an organization is increasingly dependent on the extent to which it and its members are able to transform and adapt to these changing internal and external circumstances more effectively than their competitors. Health has been identified as a key driver of socio-economic progress internationally, emphasizing the link between the health of individual workers and the overall performance of an organization. Equally, decades of research has highlighted the major role that work plays in determining physical health and psychological well-being. Articles focus on the following key issues: absenteeism and presenteeism; health and safety; models, measures, and methodologies for measuring well-being; individual factors associated with well-being such as leadership, emotion, stress, and risk and rewards; organizational factors associated with well-being such as working hours, emotional labour, technology, and job insecurity; organizational strategies for improving individual well-being. The text ends with two articles setting out new perspectivesthe link between well-being and geography and climate, and the importance of corporate social responsibility in creating a sustainable and healthy work environment.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:

Nov 2008

ISBN:

9780199211913

Published online:

Sep 2009

DOI:

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211913.001.0001

Editors

Susan Cartwright,editor
Susan Cartwright is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is Professor of Organizational Psychology in the Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester, UK. Susan is currently the President of the British Academy of Management and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. She is a past Editor of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal and a current Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management. Susan has authored thirteen books, over forty scholarly articles, and thirty book chapters. Her main research interests lie in the area of occupational stress and well‐being, human aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and emotional intelligence. She was Editor of Volume V of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management on Human Resource Management (2005) and Co‐Editor, with Cary L. Cooper and Christopher Early, of The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate (2001).

Cary L. Cooper,editor
Cary L. Cooper is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health in Lancaster University Management School and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Health. Cary was the founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and is Co‐Editor of Stress and Health. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to management science from the US Academy of Management. Cary is the author of over 100 books on occupational stress, women at work, and industrial and organizational psychology and has written over 400 scholarly articles.

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